Quotes About Belief

my heart knows who i am and who i'll turn out to be!

i imagine that yes is the only living thing.

love is the every only god

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is something valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch.

Because only the truest things always are true because they can't be true

King Christ,this world is all aleak; and lifepreservers there are none: and waves which only He may walk Who dared to call Himself a man.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." —E. E. Cummings

spending more time with our children, and reading to them, and teaching them that while they may face challenges and discrimination in their own lives, they must never succumb to despair or cynicism; they must always believe that they can write their own destiny.

I take the position that true faith is not a supersessional knowledge. It cannot discard the intellect.

She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you can't tell exactly what any of them are.

Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions of other men.

A person cannot live without looking for good signs, you just cannot do it, and I thought these signs were good.

We had a joke, Langley and I: Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

and his religion no longer had any authority … other than as an organizer of his daily life and conduct as a filing system for his perceptions. From The Waterworks.

The only hope we have is that we

It was innocents who died, not those born with the strength of no illusions.

if a good sign is so important you can just as soon make one up and fool yourself that way.

She thanked me again and then said, ''Some people say 'God is in the details.' Others say it's the Devil.'' Margaret replied, 'Maybe it depends on who's reporting the details.

If you really want to be a witch, nothing you have to do will seem like too much. If you don't really want to be a witch, everything will seem like too much.

I have such faith in words that when I read about such families as a child, I thought that they were the norm and that the way I lived was subnormal, waiting for normal.

After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

Man must offer us something better than his own thoughts if he wants us to give up the thoughts of God.